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February 28, 2006
A Dark Day in Chicago
Police unsurprisingly are not very enthusiastic about the proposal to rename a Chicago street after Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader who advocated violence against police officers.
Mark Donahue, President of the Fraternal Order of Police, said it is a "dark day" when Chicago sees fit to honor a character like Hampton. However, Alderman Madeline Haithcock, who sponsored the measure, asserts that the Black Panthers — an organization devoted to violent hatred of Caucasians — deserve honors because they fought against "racism."
Look forward to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal having an airport named after him once his richly deserved execution takes place — assuming he doesn't die of old age first.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:38 PM | Comments (1)
Mother Moonbat Sounds Retreat in Germany
Lately Germany has been fertile ground for moonbattery — yet there have been encouraging signs that a change could be in the air. The election of Angela Merkel was one. Another is the counterprotest that was planned against Cindy Sheehan, who has taken her traveling circus to Europe to harass and demoralize our troops there.
The Ditch Witch had planned a demonstration outside Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and Ramstein Air Base on March 11. German writer Stefan Prystawik organized opposition to this tasteless stunt.
"First of all, it's completely inappropriate to instrumentalize the troops here particularly, and above all, those who have suffered severe injuries and are at the hospital," said Prystawik. "They are coming here with an attitude to deliberately demoralize troops who just got back or are going to go back [to Iraq]."
Now it seems that Mother Moonbat is sounding the retreat. Amid a bunch of blather about the "industrial military complex," she seems to be calling off the Code Pink–style hospital assault. As Prystawik puts it:
Her handlers have decided that mocking wounded soldiers might not play too well even in our one party media.
Could it be that the world's tolerance for this wretched woman is starting to wear a little thin?
Hat tip: Blogmeister USA
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:40 PM | Comments (6)
Al Gore: February Moonbat of the Month™
Al Gore has yet another accomplishment to add to his resume. In association with Something... and Half of Something, Moonbattery has named him February 2006 Moonbat of the Month™.
The award is in recognition of the extreme moonbattery Prince Albert displayed in Jeddah (home town of Osama bin Laden), where he told the mostly Saudi audience at a conference funded in part by Osama bin Laden's family that the US government "indiscriminately rounded up" Arabs after 9/11 and held them in "unforgivable" conditions, inflicting "terrible abuses" on them.
Needless to say, it doesn't take much to get Muslims worked up against the West these days. The next time they launch a terrorist strike murdering thousands of Americans, they can thank Gore for assisting in their recruiting efforts, as well as for providing some moral justification from the point of view of anyone who doesn't know better than to take prominent Democrats seriously.
Hats off to al-Gore — thankfully he didn't get to be President, but he does get to be Moonbat of the Month™!
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:25 PM | Comments (18)
Revealed by Iran: Tom and Jerry Cartoons Are a Jewish Plot
Hasan Bokhari, Cultural Advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry, has made some interesting revelations about the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons that kids have been watching since 1939.
According to Bokhari, the cartoons were created by "the Jewish Walt Disney Company" in order to rehabilitate the image of mice, in response to the term "dirty mice" being applied to Jews.
"It should be noted that mice are very cunning...and dirty," Bokhari opines. "No ethnic group or people operates in such a clandestine manner as the Jews."
The cartoons are evidence of just how cunning those sneaky Jews can be:
Tom and Jerry was made in order to display the exact opposite image. If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised, and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's ass. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits.
Actually, "Tom and Jerry" was created not by Walt Disney but by Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera for MGM. But let's not let facts get in the way of an entertaining conspiracy.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:43 AM | Comments (4)
February 27, 2006
Why Mommy Is a Moonbat
Attention liberals: Afraid that our leftist educational system and the PC slant to TV kiddy shows might not ensure that your young ones develop the proper political orientation? Worried that insidious notions like individual liberty, personal responsibility, or even patriotism might take root in their impressionable minds? Try feeding them a little of this:
Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio loves Jeremy Zilber's Why Mommy Is a Democrat, raving:
A marvelous and child-friendly introduction to the values of Democrats.
(For a less child-friendly introduction to the values of Democrats, read up on some of Air America's financial activities.)
According to its website, the books uses "non-judgmental language" to express "the Democratic principles of fairness, tolerance, peace, and concern for the well-being of others" as well as to take "numerous subtle (and not-so-subtle) satirical swipes at the Bush administration and the Republican party." Hypocrisy is a difficult skill to master, so get your kids started early.
Some sample pages:
I guess I'm not the only one the Democratic mentality reminds of rodents.
Hat tip: Pompous Windbag
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:13 PM | Comments (10)
Moonbat Insurrection Planned
A moonbat cult calling itself "United for Justice and Peace" is publicly calling for a mob to storm the White House and make political prisoners of our democratically elected leaders.
The revolution is scheduled to take place March 15. After the coup, the "Political Cooperative" plans to install a new government "comprised of people from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and all the organizations that have finally made us aware of the truth of the savage practices and illegal policies of our government in assassinating our own officials as well as people throughout the world..." yadda yadda yadda.
Last I knew, there were laws against planning and/or advocating the violent overthrow of the United States Government. But by now, characters like Jimmy Carter, John Murtha, Al Gore, and John Kerry have pretty much established treason and sedition as acceptable behavior on the part of the Left.
Hat tip: LGF
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:27 PM | Comments (11)
UN Jobs Program for Rapists
The United Nations is finally making itself useful by offering an excellent job opportunity for serial rapists, particularly those who prefer their victims young. As Dimitri Vassilaros observes at PittsburghLIVE.com,
Most rapists do not get to police their own crime scenes, food to trade for sex, diplomatic immunity and indifference from the people supervising them.
UN peacekeepers have all of these advantages, and the situation won't be changing soon. According to Jordan's UN ambassador Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, a "culture of dismissiveness" is responsible for the continuing high rate of sexual abuse charges against blue-helmeted peacekeepers, who have a longstanding reputation for using food to bribe hungry children into performing sex acts.
But don't worry, the UN is "working on it," as the saying goes. Peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno has announced that a UN program to assist the victims of UN peacekeepers will be proposed soon.
Jordan's al-Hussein estimates it could take 3–4 more years for a reform program to show results. In the meantime, rapists who submit their applications now should have plenty of time to indulge in criminal sexual deviancy.
So far there have been 295 allegations against UN troops and staff, resulting in 170 perpetrators being sent home or dismissed. Considering that the UN has 85,000 people on its staff in over 100 countries, and no one denies that the sexual abuse problem is prevalent, this implies that the chances of even provoking an allegation are remote. The odds of being sent home are slimmer still. The likelihood that child rapists will face appropriate punishment is nil.
Thank you, United Nations, for putting the dead but unburied Abu Ghraib fiasco into perspective.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:12 PM | Comments (2)
Ilan Halimi Isn't the First and Won't Be the Last
It would be nice to think the case of Ilan Halimi — who was tortured to death for being Jewish by Muslims in France — was an isolated incident. The media's tendency to avoid any story that doesn't facilitate portraying Muslims in a sympathetic light makes believing this all the easier. Unfortunately it isn't true, as illustrated by Mark Steyn:
Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam's throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, "I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven."
Is that an gripping story? You'd think so. Particularly when, in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim. You've got the making of a mini-trend there, and the media love trends.
Yet no major French newspaper carried the story.
Apparently anti-Semitism prevents many Europeans from getting terribly concerned about what happens to Jews. But as Steyn observes, "The Jews are playing their traditional role of the canaries in history's coal mine." Islam's grudge isn't only with Jews; it's with everyone who hasn't joined their barbaric cult. Steyn quotes a Muslim demonstrating in Toronto the other day:
We won't stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.
The protests are one tactic. Murdering Jews is another. Flying airliners into office buildings is a third. The underlying strategy is the same: to bully civilization into submission.
As Steyn puts it, it's all about sovereignty — which mealy-mouthed moonbats are helping Muslims to extend:
Islam claims universal jurisdiction and always has. The only difference is that they're now acting upon it. The signature act of the new age was the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: Even hostile states generally respect the convention that diplomatic missions are the sovereign territory of their respective countries. Tehran then advanced to claiming jurisdiction over the citizens of sovereign states and killing them — as it did to Salman Rushdie's translators and publishers. Now in the cartoon jihad and other episodes, the restraints of Islamic law are being extended piecemeal to the advanced world, by intimidation and violence but also by the usual cooing promotion of a spurious multicultural "respect" by Bill Clinton, the United Church of Canada, European foreign ministers, etc.
To quote Arnold Toynbee, "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." If Muslims succeed in killing Western Civilization, it will be because we let them do it.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:30 AM | Comments (7)
February 26, 2006
City Lights Bans Oriana Fallaci
Anyone who still takes moonbats seriously when they bleat about their commitment to freedom of speech might be interested in a recent piece by Catherine Seipp, in which she tells of a friend who went into the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco and asked for "The Force of Reason," by Oriana Fallaci.
"We don't carry books by fascists," the clerk snapped. A call by Seipp confirmed that City Lights will not carry anything by Fallaci.
City Lights is famous for its chest-thumping commitment to freedom of speech. In 1957 its owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti faced down obscenity charges for selling Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." Respectful of this commitment to free expression, Seipp's friend didn't mind having to walk past a prominent display of books by Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill to get into the store.
But apparently this bold devotion to the free exchange of even the most obnoxious ideas does not extend to Fallaci, who has gone so far as to suggest that Western Civilization ought to resist the Islamic conquest that is proceeding at such a terrifying pace in Europe.
The hypocrisy of those who would silence her calling Fallaci a "fascist" is astonishing. During World War II she fought fascists as a partisan. The Left hates her precisely because she has been a devoted and heroic enemy of the Islamic version of fascism that is threatening to extinguish European civilization. Unlike your average snotty bookstore clerk, Fallaci has paid a price for her commitment to the truth. An Italian court actually sentenced her to jail time for criticizing Islam.
If Fallaci and her courageous kind fail, and Sharia is one day imposed on the West, it will obviously spell absolute doom for the gays and feminists whose interests are so sanctimoniously advocated by the sort of moonbats who would call her a fascist.
But let's not confuse the issue, which is really quite simple: Western Civilization and anyone who would defend it are bad. Every other principle advocated by the Left is window dressing, and will be discarded as soon as it gets in the way.
As Fallaci quoted Pope Benedict XVI in an interview with OpinionJournal:
The West reveals . . . a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only be considered pathological; the West . . . no longer loves itself; in its own history, it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive, while it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure.
In other words, the West has been crippled by moonbattery. This has left us too weak to fend off external evils. Islam is just an opportunistic infection. The underlying disease is the mentality Seipp's friend encountered at City Lights.
Hat tip: Ace of Trump
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War Memorial Converted into Toilet
The Southern Cemetery in Calais, France used to serve as a memorial to British soldiers who died liberating France from the Nazis. But a new wave of invaders has converted it to another purpose: public toilet.
Immigrants from the Middle East and Africa use the area as a launching pad to carry their invasion from France to the United Kingdom. They wait in makeshift camps for opportunities to sneak onto trucks to get them across the English Channel.
Their contempt for the culture they are in the process of displacing naturally extends to the memorial cemetery they have converted into an open-air toilet. As one immigrant puts it, "It is just an old museum and a park to commemorate a battle that was long ago. We need somewhere to sleep and to go to the toilet while we wait to get into Britain."
British moonbattery has invited the invasion. Amesh from Afghanistan explains:
Most of us have applied for asylum already in other European countries but the British are soft and let you stay. ... We email our friends in Britain and they tell us to throw away our identity papers. They also tell us which outlawed groups to say we belong to so the British believe our lives are in danger and won't send us back to our home countries. I have a friend in a B & B in Hastings and he tells me he gets fried eggs and toast and bacon and sausages every morning for breakfast and a nice hotel room with a sea view.
"The problem is there are no toilet facilities at this war grave," says Peter Francis of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. "We cannot lock the shelter as war graves are designed to be visited so people can understand the price paid for the freedom we enjoy."
We had better enjoy this freedom while we can, because today's primarily Muslim invaders have no more respect for it than the Nazis did. Unfortunately it looks like they'll be around a lot longer — possibly longer than we will.
Hat tip: Lucianne.com
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:42 PM | Comments (4)
February 25, 2006
Ilan Halimi: Christians Are Next
The same Muslim "youths" who have flexed their muscles by setting thousands of cars ablaze in France have a new feather in their cap: the punishment of Ilan Halimi, who was found guilty of being Jewish.
Halimi was tortured for 25 days for this crime. The kidnappers would call up his family and read them verses from the Koran while he screamed in the background. After they finally let him go, he was found naked and handcuffed, stumbling down train tracks south of Paris, with burns and bruises over 80% of his body. He died on the way to the hospital.
Halimi's 3+ weeks of torture occurred in one of the many "no-go" areas that Muslims have carved out in Europe — areas in which the police cannot operate freely. Welfare checks go in and violence comes out; that is the extent of these areas' interaction with the European society around them.
The gang that committed the torture-murder fittingly calls itself the Barbarians. Its core consists of Muslims with roots in Africa.
Our pro-Muslim MSM may try to spin this as a simple crime motivated by money, but the kidnappers never appeared to be serious about collecting ransom. Even the thoroughly dhimmified Washington Post was willing to quote Ilan's mother, Ruth Halimi, as stating the obvious fact that "If Ilan hadn't been Jewish he wouldn't have been murdered."
The New York Sun goes farther, quoting a police source as stating that the kidnappers' "behavior was very different from what is usually expected from abductors motivated by greed," and that one of the kidnappers admitted to putting out cigarettes on Halimi's face "because he didn't like Jews."
Guess what? It's not just Jews they don't like. Unless you're a Muslim, they don't like you either.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Le Monde — which they refer to as "the voice of the French establishment" — as calling Halimi's murder "a crime of an era, a sort of looking glass onto the true state of our society."
True enough — and we're not just talking about French society. Let's hope people have the courage to realize it.
Islam is not just another flavor in the multicultural variety pack. It is evil. It offers a stark choice: convert to it, submit to it, or be willing to die fighting it. If Western Civilization hasn't been rotted away by moonbattery to the point that it no longer deserves to exist, it will choose the latter.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:58 AM | Comments (11)
February 24, 2006
Dutch Consider Forced Abortions
When it comes to the slippery slope of abortion, Holland remains at the forefront. The country that brought us the Groningen Protocol, which allows what you might euphemistically call "postnatal abortions," is now considering imposing abortion by force.
Although the initial targets would be the children of Antilleans and Arubans (which Hitler might have considered a good idea), the policy would inevitably end up being applied to everyone. This would help maintain Holland's preeminent position in the ongoing suicide of the West by expediting the depopulation of Europe, thereby facilitating its absorption into the Islamic world.
Of course, liberals only want to kill children because they know what's best for them. Rotterdam health official Alderman Marianne van den Anker, who is calling for consideration of forced abortion and contraception, has determined that children from certain groups run an "unacceptable risk" of growing up in an environment characterized by "violence, neglect, mistreatment and sexual abuse."
So you see, aborting babies isn't killing the future. It's just putting the future out of its misery.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:16 PM | Comments (9)
Pacifica Radio: Your Tax Dollar at Work (Though Not Hard Enough)
If you spin the radio dial in the vicinity of New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Berkeley, or Houston and hear someone who seems to have been mixing cocaine with amphetamines explaining at 11 words per second that Halliburton blew up the World Trade Center as part of a racist scheme to impose heterosexuality on spotted owls, chances are you have stumbled upon a member of the Pacifica Radio network, where Bush Derangement Syndrome is taken to a level of paranoid hysteria that can be found nowhere else outside of psychiatric institutions.
You might wonder how a network that spews psychotic anti-American jabberwocky could stay on the air in competitive markets. The answer is as appalling as it is unsurprising: they are handed $1 million per year of OUR MONEY by the Federal Government, courtesy of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
But apparently $1 million isn't enough. NewsBusters reports that Pacifica has kicked off a fund drive offering a new premium to contributors. Give them enough and you'll receive a DVD featuring Hollywood types reading from Howard Zinn's leftist attack on America, Voices of a People's History of the United States. Participating celebs include confirmed moonbats Danny Glover and Viggo Mortensen. The disk also features actress Marisa Tomei doing a dramatic reading of an anti-Bush diatribe by Cindy Sheehan.
Even if you don't feel like coughing up enough cash to get the disk, rest assured you've made your contribution — whether you wanted to or not.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:46 AM | Comments (5)
February 23, 2006
Remember Chappaquiddick
Shouting down speakers like Ann Coulter will win you a wink and a nod on college campuses, but the two words "remember Chappaquiddick" can get you in hot water, as Paul Trost recently learned when he shouted them while walking out of a speech by Ted Kennedy at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts.
"Most of the crowd gasped," Trost reports. "Then I walked out of the student center."
Once outside he was accosted by a campus police officer who took down his information and let him know that he would be hearing from school officials regarding disciplinary action. Trost wasn't arrested, and it's not clear what his fate will be.
A teacher called him ignorant and an embarrassment to the school, but combating ignorance was the whole point of Trost's outburst. Evidently some of his less "ignorant" fellow students knew nothing about the negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne that Chappaquiddick Ted got away with by being a Kennedy.
Hat tip: Wiggins
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Another Shameful Harvard Apology
Lawrence Summers isn't the only one at Harvard to help enemies by issuing inappropriate apologies. Dean Judith Kidd has gone past apologizing for the tepid yet infamous Danish cartoons by apologizing to Muslims for not using sufficiently delicate wording when she asked a campus newspaper not to publish them.
Kidd sent an email to the Harvard Salient, warning:
Some segments of the campus and surrounding communities may be sufficiently upset by the publication of the cartoons that they may become dangerous.
Now where would she get that idea?
Muslims declared that Kidd's email was "offensive" and "unacceptable." You see, dhimmis are supposed to submit to Muslim bullying without accidentally hinting that Muslims are bullies.
The Harvard Islamic Society demanded a formal apology. Disgustingly, they got one.
Whimpered Dean Kidd:
I deeply regret that my message made the Muslim community feel characterized as dangerous.
Remember in 1984, when Winston Smith is brainwashed into renouncing his belief that 2+2=4? If he lived in 2006, he would be brainwashed into apologizing to Muslims for "offending" them by having said that 2+2=4 whether Mohammad likes it or not.
Western Civilization is succumbing to a loathsome spiritual disease, the hideous symptoms of which include political correctness and multiculturalism. Muslims are using this disease as leverage to maneuver us into a corner, where we find ourselves basically apologizing for our very existence.
It seems that Muslims, unlike liberals, understand that anything that apologizes for its own existence won't exist for long.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:41 PM | Comments (7)
Summers Purged From Harvard
Harvard President Lawrence Summers now has some idea what it must feel like to take the fall in a Stalinist purge. Of course, in a real Stalinist purge, if you get pegged as ideologically impure, you get a bullet in your brain. Luckily for Summers, all he gets is an opportunity to escape from a madhouse. The unlucky ones are those left behind.
Summers resigned having "reluctantly concluded that the rifts between me and segments of the Arts and Sciences faculty make it infeasible for me to advance the agenda of renewal that I see as crucial to Harvard's future."
As OpinionJournal points out:
Those "rifts" included quarrels with a largely left-wing faculty that has about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament. Or, as a group of Harvard protesters so charmingly put it a year or so ago, "Racist, sexist, anti-gay — Larry Summers, you must pay." Only on an American university campus could Mr. Summers, a former Clinton Treasury Secretary, be portrayed as a radical neocon.
Summers's crimes — in the minds of Harvard's Arts and Sciences faculty — include suggesting that Cornel West do some work for a change, expressing concern about the anti-Semitism that is so trendy on the Left these days, putting in a good word for the military, and acknowledging the theory that there are gender differences in math and science aptitude.
This last was the ultimate outrage. As Thomas Lifson notes, "It has now been established that orthodox feminism, not free intellectual inquiry, determines what may be said by the leaders of Harvard." Summers groveled and abased himself afterwards, but by apologizing when he had done nothing wrong, he was only helping to dig his own grave.
Summers was not run out by the university as a whole. As Bloomberg News columnist Amity Shlaes
notes, a poll in the Harvard Crimson just last weekend showed that undergraduates supported him 3 to 1. Summers's enemies were localized on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which demands rigid adherence to its anachronistic flower-child ideology.
Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard for 42 years and hardly a conservative, finds it alarming that this single faculty is proving itself able to impose its fanatical worldview on the rest of the university:
It was arrogant in the extreme for a plurality of a single faculty to purport to speak for the entire university, especially when that plurality is out of synch with the mainstream of Harvard. It was dangerous for the corporation to listen primarily to that faculty, without widely consulting other professors, students, and alumni who supported Summers. Now that this plurality of one faculty has succeeded in ousting the president, the most radical elements of Harvard will be emboldened to seek to mold all of Harvard in its image. If they succeed, Harvard will become a less diverse and less interesting institution of learning governed by political-correctness cops of the hard left. This is what happened in many European universities after the violent student protests of the late 1960s. It should not be allowed to happen at Harvard in the wake of the coup d'etat engineered by some in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
If it is allowed to happen, sooner or later a price will have to be paid. Already people are getting fed up with academia's rejection of conventional reality in favor of the warped Never-Never Land of its bitter leftist dogma. One of the many beauties of the free enterprise system that the liberal intelligentsia holds in such disdain is that it rarely fails to provide alternatives when a demand for them arises. As the academic establishment's reputation continues to deteriorate, look for less ideologically deformed competition to emerge.
Thank you Byron for tips.
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February 22, 2006
Stupidity
Compliments of Byron:
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Evil Seeds
Just how much ideological poison will the leftist creeps who infest our educational system from top to bottom have to pour into developing minds before they succeed in their goal of destroying American civilization from within? Considering how quickly our schools are disintegrating into leftist indoctrination camps, we may be finding out within a generation or so. Walter Williams offers some hair-raising examples in a piece on Townhall.com.
Here's Jay Bennish of Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, educating his pupils on the topic of President Bush's State of the Union address:
Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say. ... Bush is threatening the whole planet. ... [The] U.S. wants to keep the world divided. ...Who is probably the most violent nation on the planet? The United States!
Bennish has also enlightened his 10-graders with assertions that the USA has committed "7,000 terrorist attacks against Cuba" and that "Capitalism is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion and at odds with human rights." The Communist Manifesto is part of his class's curriculum. He teaches geography.
It doesn't get any better when the kids move on to college. Williams gives a few representative examples from UCLA, where history professor Mary Corey informed her class that "Capitalism isn't a lie on purpose. It's just a lie," and that capitalists "are swine. . . . They're bastard people."
For political and economic analysis, students can refer to Andrew Hewitt, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages, who told a class that "Bush is a moron, a simpleton, and an idiot," and that "American consumerism is a very unique thing; I don't think anyone else lusts after money in such a greedy fashion."
Economics Professor Rod Swanson would likely agree, having revealed to a class that "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world."
Undergoing politically correct indoctrination isn't always a passive activity at UCLA. Sociology professor Terri Anderson required a class to go cross-dressed in public.
Some very unhealthy seeds are being planted and nurtured by depraved ideologues who hate this country and everything it stands for. There will be a price to be paid for letting it continue: the future.
Hat tip: Lucianne.com
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:37 PM | Comments (11)
Slick Willie in Islamabad
It has been said that Bill Clinton wants to be the next UN Secretary General. He certainly seems to have the moral qualifications. His politics are about right too, terrifyingly so to judge by a piece in Pakistan's Daily Times:
ISLAMABAD: Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.
There has been pressure to use the UN to actually prosecute people for publishing mild cartoons like these, on the grounds that Muslims should have veto power over anything anyone says anywhere. Slick Willie is just about slimy enough to go along with it.
Clinton said he disagreed with the caricatures and that the publication was against religious and ethical norms.
History will long remember Clinton's expertise on the subject of ethical norms.
He said it was the time to promote inter-faith harmony and stand together on the issue.
It's going to be a little difficult to stand together in harmony with this:
A little more of the Man From Hope in Islamabad:
He said the people's religious convictions should be respected at all costs and the media should be disallowed to play with the religious sentiments of other faiths. He said the media could criticise any issue including governments and people, but nobody had the right to play with the sentiments of other faiths.
As Pam M. asks and answers on Blogmeister USA:
I'm sure he also means that the newspapers in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries that regularly run anti-Semitic and anti-Christian cartoons and propaganda should be prosecuted. He must also mean that prominent papers like the New York Times, which have run pictures of Piss Christ and the Madonna covered in elephant dung should be prosecuted, as those images were offensive to Christians in America, right?
Wrong.
Needless to say, the respect for religion that the Left discovered on September 11 does not extend beyond Islam.
Let's hope Pam is wrong that Clinton is sucking up to Muslims in order to get his ducks in a row for the UN slot. It's bad enough knowing our tax dollar finances the slippery lowlife at the UN endlessly knifing our country in the back. Having it orchestrated by an American would make it even worse.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:54 AM | Comments (4)
Milwaukee and Caracas to Wed?
From Milwaukee's WITI, via Dad29:
(Milwaukee) Alderman Michael McGee, Jr. says he wants to link Milwaukee with Caracas, Venezuela. He wrote a letter to Venezuelan prsident, Hugo Chavez— a man who recently claimed the U.S. was trying to kill him. Alderman McGee proposes the two become "sister cities." He says the two cities are similar in that they both need to find ways to deal with poverty. He wants to form an economic and cultural relationship between the two cities. People could criticize the letter for its choice of words— and comment about the president of the United States. In it, McGee called President Bush "a terrorist."
Let's hope McGee and his colleagues don't do to Milwaukee what Chavez has done to Caracas.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:49 AM | Comments (2)
February 21, 2006
Oil Production Tanking Under Chavez
Bloomberg.com reports that Venezuela is launching a program to convert vehicles to run on natural gas in an attempt to free up more gasoline for export.
But... isn't Venezuela swimming in oil? Why would it have to resort to drastic measures in order to save a few drops?
Publius Pundit offers some clues:
Russia the breadbasket ran out of wheat.
Cuba the sugar king ran out of sugar.
Vietnam the rice bowl ran out of rice.
Not to mention Zimbabwe, the former breadbasket of Africa, which now subsists on UN Food Aid — as observed by V the K, who asks, "What is it all of these places have in common?"
If communists ran the North Pole, it would run out of snow.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:50 PM | Comments (4)
Muslim Death Threats Over T-Shirt Sales
Muslims have been issuing death threats against Metrospy, its employees, and their families over a t-shirt featuring one of the infamous Danish cartoons:
Metrospy has managed to tone down the ferocity of some of the emails they're getting by posting the messages along with sender information on their site.
Some of Metrospy's hate mail is pretty funny. Some of it isn't. A few examples:
These T-shirts of prophet Mohammed is not acceptable. Please take it a way. This is like invitation for terorists to attack your country. Islam is very peacful relgion.
These pictures are about a leader of religion, pressing pictures on t shirts means that you will conflict with all muslims you. Could not think healtly you are very silly. I am from Turkey, I know that you are producing t-shirts which have the pictures of our the Prophet Muhammad. We are very angry and we want you to stop this work. Becouse you are making fun with our sacred. This is very dangerous, be careful.
Could you tell us why are you doing that to Muslims...!!!! Most of you are gays and your sisters are lebians. Your moms too....This is your civilisation...I thing -- Bye!!
We will kill you and burn your shop in shaa allah. I am a moslim and i have force at usa.
Will you stop??? We are coming *sshole. You are dead do you know this.
Do you know what? F*ck you! Cuz its not good to use feelings and make people kill themselves with selling these silly shirts. Yes I Turkish but you even don't know anything about Turkey. You'll think that we all are ignorant people but, NO! We have great nights all parties and girls and drinks but you suckas think Turkey is what you see on BBC, right? This is sh*t and f*ck your religions. We dont care about them. But reasons of what people kill theirselves is what we give a sh*t! I love you.
You are dead mother f*cker. We will keep you staying sometimes and will send you to the HELL. See you next month in your house.
2 days or we killing your family.
In light of how easy it is to offend these maniacs, maybe making "non-offensive to Muslims" a requirement for anything our media will publish isn't such a great idea.
Hat tip: PC Free Zone
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:34 PM | Comments (5)
Dems Attack Patriots as "Un-American"
As reported on Power Line, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign to suppress advertisements voicing support for American policy in Iraq by veterans of the war and by Gold Star Families. In an astonishing example of the pot calling the kettle black, Minnesota party chairman Brian Melendez condemned one of the ads as "un-American."
Not content with wildly inappropriate slurs, the Democratic Party has been actively attempting to suppress the ads by sending emails to party members egging them on to contact TV stations and demand the removal of the ads.
Among the reasons Dems want the ads suppressed is that one features Merrilee Carlson, whose son Michael was killed in Iraq last year. Her support for US policy presents a stark contrast with Cindy Sheehan's seditious demagoguery, and is likely to represent a more accurate reflection of the views of Gold Star Families — something liberals have an obvious interest in wanting to keep hidden.
Thank you V the K for the tip.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:27 AM | Comments (2)
Chavez and Condi: Just Not Meant to Be
Venezuela's budding socialist dictator Hugo Chavez continues his awkward attempts to flirt with our Secretary of State, as reported on Fox News:
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice against interfering in his country, saying, "Don't mess with me, girl" and sarcastically offering her a kiss. Chavez also mockingly referred to Rice as "Condolence" during his weekly TV broadcast. The warning comes just days after Rice described Venezuela as one of the West's "biggest problems" and called for the region to unite to expose Venezuela's "anti-Democratic behavior."
This isn't the first time Chavez has been dismissive of the U.S. Secretary, he called Rice "a true illiterate" in 2004, and later said she only spoke out against him because she wanted to sleep with him.
But since Chavez's crudely expressed interest does not seem to be reciprocated by Rice, he'll have to settle for what he can get:
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:23 AM | Comments (1)
Despite Casualties, MSM Presses Forward on Cheney Hunting Accident
It looks like the media has paid a price for its grotesque overindulgence in the Cheney hunting story — and yet if you stay tuned, you will be subjected to more of the same.
On Meet the Depressed, David Gregory had to eat some humble pie as a result of a childish tantrum he threw in the White House press room:
[I]t was inappropriate for me to lose my cool with the press secretary representing the President. I don't think it was professional of me.
Not that Gregory's repentance runs very deep — he still asserts that the hunting accident was "emblematic of the rather secretive style with the press by the Vice President," and it's highly possible he will behave the same way in the future:
I, for one, don't apologize for pushing hard for answers. I think people who view the news or view what I do for a partisan lens may think I was making a political statement. I was not.
At least Gregory didn't dress up like a liberal elite snob's conception of what a hunter would look like:
Just as Al Franken and John Stewart have made it clear that you can't rely on comedians to bring you the news, Dana Milbank proved that stand-up comedy is not an appropriate sideline for supposedly serious journalists from the Washington Post. On CNN's Reliable Sources, as Drudge Reports,
Dana Milbank fretted that the White House is exploiting the public's growing disdain for the mainstream media. "Of course they succeed," Milbank said of Bush aides. "The press always looks awful. They will once again make us look awful."
Actually, the MSM made themselves look awful by behaving like the ankle-biting partisan twerps they are as they neglected serious news stories in favor of a minor accident in hopes it would embarrass the Vice President — and they're still doing it. Check out this week's covers for Newsweak and Slime:
Hat tip: Alamo Nation
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:12 AM | Comments (4)
February 20, 2006
The Media's Shame
Davids Medienkritik has a particularly excellent piece on Der Spiegel (Germany's answer to Time/Newsweek) and its contemptible eagerness to exploit the additional Abu Ghraib photos that recently emerged.
A few highlights:
Torture in the name of freedom? Since when has America advocated torture as a means of promoting freedom? When someone is tortured or abused in a German jail in violation of established standards, does that mean the German government is torturing in the name of democracy as well? ...
This is a dangerously cynical equation of two concepts. Particularly in a Europe where the general public is already so jaded that many no longer believe in the concept of freedom. ...
The irony of it all is that publications like SPIEGEL would not even have the freedom to print this exploitative trash had it not been for the massive sacrifice in lives, blood and toil of American soldiers to liberate Germany from Fascism and defend it from Communism. ...
That is what it is really about for SPIEGEL: Long-term humiliation and disgrace for the United States. Abu-Ghraib as the new Mai Lai. This is not about thoughtful, constructive criticism. This is not about genuine, collegial interest in seeing America right its wrongs. This is not about transatlantic dialog and understanding.
This is about a harmful, vindictive rush to the moral high ground at America's expense. Americans should recognize this shameless bashing for what it is and become extremely wary of any and all criticism they hear blaring from across the Atlantic. Americans must begin to tune-out and turn-off the hateful voices that seek only to profit from their misfortune.
The whole piece needs reading.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:36 PM | Comments (3)
What Hollywood Thinks
Richard Doofus wasn't the only combination actor/sage to share precious wisdom with the unwashed masses last week. Here's an insightful observation about our Vice President by Alec Baldwin:
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
Baldwin can count himself lucky that Cheney's domestic terrorist activities target innocent citizens indiscriminately, instead of our enemies. Otherwise the VP might strap on a suicide belt and head for Hollywood.
But then, considering that Cheney is a no-nonsense kind of guy, he probably agrees with these folks:
Hat tip: Media Research Center
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:05 PM
MoveOn.org's Alternate Reality
For anyone not ready to drink the Kool-Aid and believe that we have entered a time warp in which Iraq is actually Vietnam, the Valerie Plame non-story is actually Watergate, and George W. Bush is actually Richard Nixon, maybe this picture from MoveOn.org will help:
Is seems Nixon and W are so much alike, they have the very same body.
This isn't the first time MoveOn.org has indulged in a little photoshoppery to prop up their propaganda. Given this organization's regard for the truth, it won't be the last.
With thanks to ex-expat.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:39 PM
When a Tie Is Not Just a Tie
It's not easy for the MSM to top itself when it comes to fatuousness — and yet it always manages somehow. Here's what the Washington Post had to say about the pink tie Dick Cheney was wearing when he was interviewed on Fox News about the overblown hunting accident:
Cheney's pink four-in-hand registered in the manner of pigtails on a gangsta rapper. In the parlance of hip-hop, the look is full of macho swagger and the not-so-subtle suggestion that even with the hairdo of a pre-adolescent girl, the rapper is still the toughest thing standing in the room. The incongruous sartorial flourish is a display of irony and confidence.
Say what? Before long, the WaPo piece has reached this highly original conclusion:
For Cheney, a pink tie was a weapon.
Hopefully Cheney is coordinating with Donald Rumsfeld on this new breakthrough in military technology.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:29 PM | Comments (3)
A Theory on Letting Arabs Run Our Ports
Peter Gadiel — whose son James died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 — has as good a theory as any as to why President Bush would allow a company based in the United Arab Emirates to run several major US ports:
I'm a lifelong Republican and I think the President's gone insane.
Well, that would explain why Bush allowed ultra-liberals like Chuck Schumer and even Barbara Boxer to outflank him on the right on security. Democrats are threatening legislation to prevent a company from the UAE — home of two 9/11 hijackers and a source of some of its funding — from calling the shots at ports that include New York City's.
It would also explain why more than four years after 9/11, Norman Mineta — who has made no secret of the fact that he considers political correctness a far higher priority than preventing Muslims from hijacking airplanes — is appallingly still the Secretary of Transportation.
Gadiel's theory also helps us make sense of Bush's refusal to lift a finger to stop the total chaos on our southern border.
Applications of the theory go beyond national security. Presenting us with a massive new prescription drug entitlement when it is obvious that the entitlements we already have will eventually bankrupt the economy is the first to come to mind.
However, Gadiel's theory starts to look shaky when you compare W to someone who actually is certifiably insane: Al Gore, for example.
Considering the opposition, we are fortunate to have Bush as our President. But that's not to say a little more sanity in Washington wouldn't be very much appreciated.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:42 PM | Comments (2)
February 19, 2006
As Media Neros Fiddle, Iran Prepares the Fire
While MSM nitwits obsess on trivia and throw public tantrums, Iran continues its headlong rush toward Armageddon.
An Iranian group called Martyrdom Seekers boasts that it has collected over "1,000 trained martyrdom-seekers" — i.e., suicide bombers, who will be employed against the West in the unlikely event that it develops the backbone to impede Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
At a recent recruiting event, another 50 volunteers filled out membership applications. No doubt the qualifications are the same you would need to gain admission to a hospital for the criminally insane.
Meanwhile, Iran's ayatollahs have issued a fatwa approving the use of nuclear weapons against countries they don't like. Sharia used to forbid the use of nuclear weapons, but that was before Muslims started getting their hands on them.
If by some miracle we do manage to prevent Iran from acquiring and using nuclear weapons, look for liberals to declare afterwards that it was never trying to develop them in the first place. If we don't, look for some other planet to live on.
Hat tip: Prince of Leaves
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:12 PM | Comments (1)
Muslim Rioting: Who Is Pulling the Strings?
Berserk Muslims set fire to the Italian consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Friday. At least 10 people were killed, all of them Libyan. The purpose was to protest some innocuous Danish cartoons.
Since this does not make any sense whatsoever, ulterior motives must be explored. It's clear that the rioters are savage hooligans who will seize on any pretext to cause havoc. But who is pulling their strings?
Some have suggested that behind the cartoon issue is a push for hegemony. The moral and culture disintegration of Europe is creating a vacuum, and Muslims are rushing to fill it by establishing the authority to tell Europeans what they may or may not publish, in effect bullying them into accepting dhimmi status in their own countries.
But a nuanced analysis reveals that this theory must be false, because it is based on the racist premise that anything can go wrong in the world that is not the fault of rich white Americans, at least one of whom has stood to gain from the rioting:
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:47 PM | Comments (5)
Richard Doofus Develops Dementia
While spewing limousine liberal rhetoric in front of a presumably receptive audience at the National Press Club last Thursday, actor Richard Dreyfuss's lack of eloquence reached a degree of incoherence that cried out for psychiatric treatment.
On the topic of angry leftists' daydream of impeaching President Bush for not sharing their views, the self-described "'libo-conservo-middle-of-the-roado" Dreyfuss declared, "There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose."
His seditious ramblings touched upon America's strangely unreported withdrawal from the Geneva Convention, the commonplaceness of torture in this country, and the unconscionable practice of eavesdropping on terrorist communications before stumbling upon the topic of those who might disapprove of his counterproductive bloviating. At this point, Dreyfuss left the English language behind, and lapsed into Jabberwocky (video):
Fingers start a-pointing, and ridicule starts a-rising, and worst of all treason is im— is starts getting implied. Treason. Watch me lose my sense of humor. People accuse me of treason. "That's not very O'Reilly of you, Mister Smarty-Pants," or "What would Sean Hannity have to say about that, Mister Ka-Too-Complex-for-Your-Own-Good?"
Sean Hannity responded with an open invitation to come on his show.
Dreyfuss is scheduled to appear on both "Hannity and Colmes" and the "O'Reilly Factor" to prove that his views can withstand intelligent scrutiny. He'll be on right after Hillary Clinton. Later in the evening, Greta Van Susteren will interview Elvis Presley, who will reveal that Jimmy Hoffa is not dead but has been hiding out with the Raging Grannies after undergoing a sex-change operation.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:12 AM
February 18, 2006
Bryant Gumball Still Likes the Taste of His Shoe
You would think that sports would be a haven where we could get a breather from obnoxious race-baiting moonbattery. But not with Bryant Gumbel involved. Here's what he had to say about the Winter Olympics on HBO's Real Sports:
So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.
What does he want, affirmative action for ice skaters? Actually, if the Winter Games did look like a GOP convention, we'd be seeing pictures like this:
The Turin Olympics have looked more like a Democratic than a Republican convention:
Hat tip: Wiggins
Cross-posted at The Wide Awakes
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:34 AM | Comments (7)
February 17, 2006
Pastries of the Thin-Skinned Prophet
Until they get their nuclear weapons operational, Iran's ayatollahs have to make do when it comes to punishing the West. For example, Iran is avenging itself on Denmark for being the home of bland infidel cartoons by officially changing the name of Danish pastries to "Roses of Muhammad."
Iran's confectioners' union ordered the name change:
Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to "Rose of Muhammad" pastries.
Explains an obedient cake shop owner in northern Tehran:
This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam.
Iranian Danishes aren't actually from Denmark anyway. Iran has cut all commercial ties with Denmark over the cartoons.
Hat tip: Varla
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:36 PM | Comments (6)
Moonbats Versus the Olympic Torch
Envirokooks should be awarded the gold medal for self-parody after their recent request that the Olympic Torch be turned down in honor of the absurd and useless Kyoto Protocol.
The flame consumes 1,500 cubic meters of natural gas per hour, no doubt traumatizing Gaia tremendously. But callous Olympic officials refuse to turn it down, for fear that it might go out after all these years. Not that they are turning up their noses at political correctness in Turin:
The main Olympic Village, housing 2,500 athletes, has a record amount of solar panels and low-energy light bulbs. In the mountains, special tracks around the luge run and ski jumping hill allow animals to pass through the area.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:07 PM | Comments (3)
UN, EU on Their Way to Imposing Sharia?
In a truly appalling if unsurprising development, Organization of the Islamic Conference Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is teaming up with Eurodhimmis to impose speech restrictions in the wake of Islamowackos' hebephrenic overreaction to the bland yet infamous Danish cartoons.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana reportedly agrees with Ihsanoglu's idea that the EU and OIC should work together on a UN resolution suppressing "defamation of religions." You don't have to be a cynic to realize that the only religion you will get in any trouble for defaming will be Islam.
Ihsanoglu is also pushing for "international legal measures against blasphemy" and demands that "the EU should adopt necessary legislative measures by the European Parliament against Islamophobia."
Sure, if the European bureaucracy is resigned to dhimmitude, why not make it official? The only problem will be reconciling liberals' distaste for capital punishment with the Religion of Peace's time-honored tradition of punishing criticism of Islam with violent death.
Here's how Ihsanoglu put the ho-hum Danish cartoons into context for the rest of the useless moonbats and bureauweenies who have been shooting off their mouths in Jeddah over the last week:
Unfortunately, people in the Muslim world feel that this is a new 9/11 against themselves. In Europe unfortunately Muslims have taken the place of Jews during World War II.
Got that? A few harmless cartoons equals 3000 innocent civilians murdered on September 11 equals 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
If you can't tell the difference between this:
this:
and this:
you might belong in front of a microphone at the next international conference. You might even be United Nations material.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:41 AM | Comments (7)
February 16, 2006
Treason and Hypocrisy, the MSM's Stock in Trade
Surprise! The same insufferable MSM moonbats who wouldn't publish the tepid Danish cartoons lest they offend Muslims are running with the opportunity to shove more Abu Ghraib pictures in everyone's face — knowing full well that such pictures have minimal news value at this point but continue to constitute a valuable recruitment tool for Islamic terrorists.
The Australian television network SBS's Dateline program has gone public with newly uncovered (though 3 years old) video and still images from Abu Ghraib, the scandal the Left will not let die.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman observed the obvious: that dredging up more Abu Ghraib pictures could "possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world" and of course, endanger US troops. He also noted that the situation has been dealt with. The scandal led to a comprehensive review of detention operations by the Defense Department that resulted in 600 criminal investigations and 200 prosecutions.
As General John Abizaid pointed out last September:
When we continue to pick at the wound and show the pictures over and over again, it just creates the image — which is a false image — like this is the sort of stuff that is happening anew, and it's not.
But of course, creating false images is the whole point of propaganda — and creating the kind that encourage Islamic terrorism is a specialty of the mainstream media.
Naturally Al-Jazeera picked up the newly publicized images and ran with them, as did its twin sister CNN, which offers a whole "gallery" of Abu Ghraib stills, as well as a video clip.
When reporting on the Danish cartoons, CNN runs a note that it is not showing the cartoons themselves so that it can avoid "adding fuel to the controversy."
Their hypocrisy is almost as staggering as their eagerness to betray their own civilization.
The sniveling weasels at the Washington Post are also running one of the SBS pictures. They would not run the Danish cartoons at all, because they "have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste."
The list of traitors and hypocrites goes on and on. Naturally it includes the New York Times.
Obviously this is not a matter of not wanting to anger Muslim savages. It is a matter of cowardly siding with the enemies of Western Civilization. If any institution on earth is more profoundly contemptible than the left-liberal mainstream media, I hope I never find out about it. I would die of disgust.
Just so that Moonbattery can do its part to ensure that the Gray Lady et al. are not successful in leaving people to believe that the Danish cartoons somehow warrant a violent reaction, here they are once again:
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:37 PM | Comments (5)
Fetus-Eating Abortionist Inspires New Legislation
Here's a disturbing question: if abortion is the thin edge of a wedge, what would the wide part look like? Holland's Groningen Protocol — whereby infants are killed for having disabilities — gives one answer. An even ghastlier one can be found in the Kansas City abortion clinic of Krishna Rajanna, who has been seen microwaving fetuses and mixing them in with his lunch.
Moonbattery reported on Dr. Rajanna earlier, after two years of investigation led to his clinic finally getting shut down for being absolutely filthy. Attempts to prevent future houses of horror like Rajanna's were stalled by Kansas's pro-abortion Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
In an attempt to get around Sebelius's vetoes, a bill has been proposed that will require all offices that perform outpatient surgery — not just abortion clinics — to undergo unannounced inspections. But abortion advocates still object to the measure.
Rajanna denies the eyewitness accounts that he eats fetuses, claiming that he's a vegetarian. But there's no reason for him to be bashful about his dietary habits. After all, eating a human fetus is perfectly legal.
They're not human, remember?
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:34 PM | Comments (2)
Higher Education Vagina-Swirling Down the Drain
The post below on University of Washington Student Senate members who oppose erecting a statue of working class part-Sioux war hero Pappy Boyington on the grounds that he's a rich white murderer might give people the idea that college students aren't learning much these days. But actually, they are learning all sorts of imaginative things. Sometimes they even learn for a cause. And the learning isn't limited to the classroom.
University of Pennsylvania recently hosted the Sex Toy Box Social, at which demonstrations instructed students of this prestigious Ivy League school on how to use sex toys.
The event gave "dignity to sexuality" and helped "highlight the power of female sexuality," according to one Penn freshman. But it also had a higher purpose: to raise funds to help people abort their children.
At University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Feminist Students United and V-Day teamed up to produce "Sex-travaganza," billed as "a fun and informative sex-positive party":
Presentation on fun and safe sex techniques given by the Center for Healthy Student Behaviors, make your own Vagina Swirl to eat, Safe Sex Party Bags to take home, test your knowledge in the Sex Quiz and win tantalizing prizes from Cherry Pie.
While it's encouraging that college women are being taught valuable masturbation skills, feminists must be disappointed to see no mention of funds at the UNC event going to help rid women of inconvenient babies.
Hat tip: William
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:30 AM | Comments (2)
February 15, 2006
Andrei Codrescu Versus ALA on Cuban Libraries
Hats off to Andrei Codrescu for taking on the mealy-mouthed moonbats of the American Library Association. Codrescu was the keynote speaker at the ALA's Midwinter Meeting. Much to the chagrin of ALA President Michael Gorman, he used the opportunity to hold the organization's feet to the fire regarding its lack of support for underground or "independent" libraries in Cuba, a place where traditional libraries aren't going to carry anything that isn't approved by the totalitarian State.
Possibly in deference to lefty icon Fidel Castro, the ALA refuses to recognize these as "real" libraries. But they are the only real libraries you will find in the penal colony Castro has made out of Cuba.
Although Codrescu maintains that the ALA didn't try to tell him what to say in his keynote address, Gorman pouts that he did not deliver the speech he told ALA apparatchiks he would.
Nat Hentoff has also expressed outrage at the ALA, renouncing his Immroth Award in protest of its lack of support for Cuba's independent libraries.
Lest you get the idea that the ALA cares more about political correctness than it does about libraries, ALA members have traveled to Cuba and have expressed "deep concern" over the political prisoners rotting away in Castro's dungeons. No doubt Castro will soon set them all free and announce open elections as a result.
The ALA's stand on the independent libraries is that they are "questionable" and that recognizing them would "harm real efforts for a professional exchange." But as Codrescu, who spent his youth in communist Romania, points out:
The simple truth is that their fellow librarians are in prison for defending the human right to read.
If he really wants the ALA to take the side of freedom in Cuba, he should tell them that Castro is oppressing his slaves with the Patriot Act, which of course the organization vehemently opposes.
Hat tip: Varla
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:58 PM | Comments (2)
Democratic Farm Team
Just as Major League Baseball has a farm system to develop talent for the future, so does the Democratic Party. For a morbidly fascinating glimpse of one of the Dems' farm teams, have a look at the February 7 minutes (PDF) of the University of Washington Student Senate.
At issue was whether the school should erect a statue honoring USMC Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a UW alumnus and heroic fighter ace who commanded the legendary Black Sheep Squadron in World War II. He was credited with downing 26 enemy aircraft. Robert Conrad played Boyington on the TV show Baa Baa Black Sheep.
A few highlights from the minutes:
Jill Edwards questioned whether it was appropriate to honor a person who killed other people.
She said she didn't' [sic] believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce.
Ashley Miller commented that many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men.
As V the K points out, Boyington was working class and part Sioux. However, he could be said to have been fighting to defend the interests of rich white men in their selfish scheme to prevent the Japanese from becoming culturally self-actualized by conquering the United States.
Here's what someone who actually supported the statue had to say:
Mikhail Smirnoff said he supported the resolution. ... He said he understood the sentiment of not wanting to reward those who fought in the war, but that he thought those who fought in WWII were heros [sic] and that it was a much different war than the controversial war in Iraq.
If Mr. Smirnoff really does understand the sentiment of not wanting to reward those who defend our country, then he's wasting his time on the Student Senate. The guy should be hard at work in the Abnormal Psychiatry Department, sharing his insight with others.
His remarks make it clear that any UW grads currently fighting in Iraq to protect these little twerps shouldn't get their hopes up regarding campus memorials. But the Democratic Party can take heart; fresh talent is on the way.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:33 PM | Comments (8)
Shrill, Loathsome and Ugly
Al Gore's incendiary anti-American remarks may have gone down nicely in Saudi Arabia, but they don't seem to be playing well at home. As you'll recall, Gore's George Galloway act at the Jeddah Economic Forum included unsubstantiated claims that the US government "indiscriminately rounded up" Arabs after September 11, held them in "unforgivable" conditions, and subjected them to "terrible abuses."
As the National Association of Chiefs of Police points out, Prince Albert "crossed the line of diplomatic decency by denigrating his own country within the Islamic world." They invited him to share any evidence he might have of "terrible abuses" with Congress, and described his anti-American allegations as "shrill," "loathsome" and "ugly" — three words that increasingly fit the Democratic Party as a whole.
Rep Peter King (R-NY) didn't think much of Gore's rhetoric either. Calling his conduct "disgraceful," King observed, "Either he's lost it or he's putting his hatred of Bush ahead of America's security" — another comment that could easily be applied to today's Democrats in general.
However, Chuck Schumer did dispute Gore's notion that we are oppressing Saudis by not making it even easier for them to enter our country.
The principled Hillary Clinton declined to comment. Maybe she's waiting for poll numbers to come in before issuing her heartfelt response.
Images compliments of Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:53 AM | Comments (2)
February 14, 2006
Valentine's Day Besieged by Moonbattery
It's not only Muslims who have it in for Valentine's Day. Fox News reports that employers in Britain have been banning Valentine's cards from the workplace to avoid sexual harassment suits. A third of UK businesses reportedly support the ban. According to a consultant at Britain's Employment Law Advisory Services, all Valentine's Day messages should be punishable by disciplinary action if employers want to keep the lawyers at bay.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:58 PM | Comments (2)
Zionist Scarecrows
Here's something I'll bet you didn't know: Germans are nothing but Zionist scarecrows!
Or at least, that's what they're saying in the Iranian press, which is attempting to keep the perpetual Muslim frenzy stoked by encouraging outrage over another European cartoon:
The writing says: "Why at the World Cup of all places does the German army have to be on duty?"
If Angela Merkel starts groveling and bleating apologies over this, I am going to be really disappointed.
Hat tip: LGF
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:50 PM
Gore's America-Bashing Funded by Bin Ladens
By the way, the Jeddah Economic Forum — at which Al Gore spewed some of the most inflammatory anti-American propaganda this side of al-Jazeera — was funded in part by Osama bin Laden's family. Jeddah is bin Laden's home town.
In January 2002, Bill Clinton was paid $267,000 to address this same forum. You may remember Clinton as the randy ex-President who responded to September 11 by publicly spitting up stuff like this:
Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless. Indeed, in the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it, and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was Muslim on the Temple mound. The contemporaneous descriptions of the event describe soldiers walking on the Temple mound, a holy place to Christians, with blood running up to their knees. I can tell you that that story is still being told to today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it. Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery and slaves were, quite frequently, killed even though they were innocent. This country once looked the other way when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human and we are still paying the price today. Even in the 20th century in America people were terrorized or killed because of their race.
Thankfully it appears America will be spared the catastrophe of an Al Gore presidency. But that doesn't mean al-Gore can't follow in Slick Willie's footsteps.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:41 AM | Comments (5)
Founding Member of Axis of Weasels Endorses Hillary For President
More moonbattery at the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder:
"I'd be very pleased if Hillary Clinton would become the next American president," Schroeder said to applause from a largely Saudi audience at the Jeddah Economic Forum, which opened here Saturday.
As OpinionJournal points out, "It would be hard for Republicans to write a better campaign commercial."
All we need is an endorsement from Jacques Chirac and I think we can stick a fork in her.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:33 AM
Cuckoo For Coca Puffs
Now that Hugo Chavez's pal Evo Morales is running the show in Bolivia, there are going to be changes — right down to the breakfast table:
Bolivia's Foreign Minister wants school children to reap the nutritional benefits from one of the country's most revered crops — coca — which is of course the stuff used to make cocaine. David Choquehuanca says there's more calcium in coca plants than in milk and therefore the former should be included on school breakfast menus.
Bolivia's president Evo Morales, himself a coca farmer whose presidential victory was helped in part by local coca growers, has spent the last month advocating the legal uses of coca and vowing to protect local farmers.
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February 13, 2006
World's Unfunniest Comedian
Here's Al Franken's comedic spin on the minor hunting accident involving Dick Cheney:
Over the weekend, Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in Texas. Asked why he shot the man, the Vice President said, "Just to watch him die."
Are you laughing? That was supposed to be a joke.
Hat tips: Wiggins, NewsBusters
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Gore Inflames Arabs Against USA
Other than Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, it's hard to imagine a scarier thought than the fact that Al Gore was very nearly elected President. Having come completely unhinged, Gore has entered into George Galloway territory by traveling to the Middle East to spew false and extremely incendiary anti-American propaganda likely to help get Americans killed.
Prince Albert told a mostly local audience in Saudi Arabia that the US government inflicted "terrible abuses" on Arabs after 9/11. It "indiscriminately rounded up" the poor victims and held them in "unforgivable" conditions.
He also accused the Bush Administration of encouraging terrorism by blocking Saudi visa applications. As even Gore probably knows, Saudi Arabia produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:57 PM
Another Texas Hunting Incident
With thanks to Wiggins:
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Black Betty Banned
The song "Black Betty" — written by the legendary blues singer Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, and made into a hit in 1977 by Ram Jam — was used for about a decade to rally University of New Hampshire hockey fans. But no more; you see, it has been revealed that the song is "theoretically racist." It has now been banned.
The ban might be repealed though, if someone could convince the mullahs of political correctness at UNH that the song is actually about illegal drugs.
Hat tip: Lucianne.com
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:00 PM
Muslims Go After Valentine's Day
Considering how many in the West seem willing to give up freedom of the press because Muslims disapprove of some bland Danish cartoons, there shouldn't be much resistance to Islamic demands that we do away with Valentine's Day.
The other day members of the Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat stormed into gift and stationery shops, setting fire to anything that reminded them of the holiday some of us infidels will be celebrating tomorrow.
"We will not let anyone sell these cards or celebrate Valentine's Day," said Asiya Andrabi, the group's leader, as she held a burning poster in her hand. ...
She said that the raids were carried out "not to harm anyone but to make them realize that this is against Islam's teachings."
Mohammad Sarwar, owner of a stationery store, didn't much appreciate it:
They barged in, grabbed cards and posters and burnt them outside. Most of the cards were not even Valentine cards. It is difficult to do business with such threats looming overhead.
How unconscionable: does he really think he can put his own right to make a living ahead of the hurt feelings of those offended by his Valentine's cards?
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:47 AM
February 12, 2006
Another European Leader Volunteers For Dhimmitude
Irish President Mary McAleese was in Riyadh today, condemning the publication of the innocuous cartoons that Muslims have been exploiting to browbeat the West into abandoning the principle of freedom of speech.
Chides McAleese:
We abhor the publication of those provocative cartoons, they were designed to provoke, they were designed to be rude, they were designed to inflame, they did all of those things.
Obviously the willing dhimmis who take this line are playing right into the hands of the Muslim rioters and their sinister puppeteers in Iran and Syria by falsely admitting that publishing the cartoon constituted some sort of offense.
Apparently feeling that the flames weren't burning brightly enough, McAleese splashed them with more gasoline:
Muslims have every right to feel angry.
Naturally she also mouthed the usual platitudes about abhorring violence, as if unaware that validating the pretext for the violence is hardly likely to put an end to it.
Hat tip: LGF
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Ambulance Chasing Suffers a Setback
The $10 million lawsuit alleging that a flying shrimp at a Japanese steakhouse caused a man's death has been rejected, despite claims on the part of the dead guy's relatives that a Benihana chef ignored their pleas to stop tossing shrimp at them.
Hat tip: ex-expat
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February 11, 2006
Teachers Union Crook Assailed by Diminutive Demon
It's nice to know that not all of the money that unions extract from teachers goes to propping up the Democratic Party. In the case of former office manager Gwendolyn M. Hemphill and former treasurer James O. Baxter of the Washington Teachers Union, the Washington Times reports:
Union dues were used to pay for designer clothing and fur coats, silverware and a champagne cooler, antiques and art objects, wigs, plasma televisions, dental implants, $77,181 worth of tickets to basketball games, and Louis Vuitton and Chanel handbags, among other items.
Both were convicted on 23 counts of crimes that include embezzlement, money laundering, conspiracy and wire fraud. But now Hemphill is seeking leniency — on the grounds that she suffers from psychotic episodes in which she is menaced by "a small, dark-skinned person with a thin Roman nose, small lips and a spear, who is dressed like a native African."
Well, that would certainly excuse embezzling nearly $5 million over a period of 7 years. I would give Hemphill and her lawyers credit for originality, but I suspect they got the idea from watching Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror.
Hat tip: William
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Try Assimilating This
An AP photo, via The Volokh Conspiracy:
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The NFL and MLB Versus Hollywood
Enjoy the Pro Bowl tomorrow, because when it's over, that's it for the football season. Movies might help fill the entertainment gap until baseball starts up in the spring, but Hollywood pales in comparison to the NFL and MLB. Not that movies aren't fun to watch — but there can be a big difference in the caliber of the people involved. Just for illustration, compare the way "Lord of the Rings" heartthrob Viggo Mortensen and